Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:17:00 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to compile drm.ko on powerpc Message-ID: <4D2F257C.50005@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinHM4QmJq5i6bJoTvMKzAQfkhgj0Z6guN9LqYNZ@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=CRDL-dT6Q56tbUmhzPbTBUFbX110jT99sA5SU@mail.gmail.com> <4D2DEC1B.3010208@freebsd.org> <AANLkTinHM4QmJq5i6bJoTvMKzAQfkhgj0Z6guN9LqYNZ@mail.gmail.com>
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AGP is derived from PCI, so AGP devices show up on the PCI bus. All the AGP kernel module does is provide hooks to manipulate some advanced features of the bus, mostly for the benefit of drm. -Nathan On 01/12/11 19:24, Super Bisquit wrote: > My graphics port is agp and not pci. It's a Quicksilver 2002 with a > 4x agp slot. > Now, how do I make it work? That's the problem I've been recently asking about. > Forgive me for bringing the next part here. > The PowerPC snapshot 9 for the 32bit ppc needs updating. The ports > tarball is behind. > > > On 1/12/11, Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On 01/12/11 02:39, Super Bisquit wrote: >>> http://slexy.org/view/s2NSVy7aTU >>> >>> The build also fails looking for machine/specialreg.h. This file is only >>> found on i386/amd64 processors. Drm.ko is needed by agp.ko. >> DRM is not required by AGP, rather the reverse, and DRM does not >> presently work on powerpc. The AGP kernel module also doesn't provide >> any useful features unless you are using DRM. You don't need either for >> graphics on powerpc machines. >> -Nathan >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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